Tuition: $31,000 annually for cadets who board at the academy; $18,650 for day students

Accreditation: Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Other Distinctions: Honor Unit With Distinction (Army JROTC program)

CARLSBAD  A civil lawsuit alleging systemic and sadomasochistic hazing at the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad is headed for a North County courtroom in June, and a second lawsuit alleging sexual molestation at the military school is expected to go to trial three months later.

The first lawsuit, originally filed by a former cadet in March 2008 in Orange County, where he used to live, is scheduled for trial June 4 in Vista Superior Court. According to the lawsuit, the attack occurred several years ago, but the former cadet long had been too ashamed to speak out about it. The second, filed in June 2009, is scheduled for trial Sept. 10 in the same court.

The academy, which enrolls 314 students on a 16-acre, oceanfront campus in Carlsbad, faces other troubles, as well.

Carlsbad police have issued a felony arrest warrant for Juan P. Munoz, a former counselor at the academy who was fired in 2007 for providing alcohol to cadets. Police allege that he plied cadets with alcohol and committed lewd acts on them on numerous occasions.

Munoz remains at large and is believed to be somewhere on the East Coast, said Lt. Kelly Cain, a spokesman with the Carlsbad Police Department.

Stephen Bliss, president of the Army and Navy Academy and a retired brigadier general in the Army, would not comment on the lawsuits. But he said the academy’s policies are clear.

“Hazing has always been forbidden and is an expulsion offense for a cadet. It is simply not tolerated,” Bliss wrote in an e-mail interview yesterday.

The first lawsuit, which seeks damages to be determined at trial, alleges that a former cadet led an attack on the plaintiff sometime between December 2002 and February 2003. Both the plaintiff and his attacker were minors at the time.

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff’s attacker, acting as the ringleader of a group of cadets, forced him to drink alcohol. Once he was inebriated, the cadets beat him, “applied topical analgesic heat rub cream” to parts of his body and sodomized him with a broomstick.

The plaintiff, who had been a cadet at the school for two semesters at the time of the alleged assault, had been subjected to harassment and beatings as soon as he entered the school, said his attorney, Vince Finaldi. On his first day at the school and at other times, he was forced to play a game called “body shot,” in which he and another young cadet were told to fight each other or face fighting an older cadet.

“The hazing was pretty severe from the get-go,” Finaldi said.

His client told his parents about the hazing early on, and his father complained to the academy, but nothing was done, Finaldi said. His client didn’t mention the sexual assault to his parents until years later, when lingering injuries caused him to seek medical care. That’s when the family decided to sue the academy, the plaintiff’s primary attacker and the attacker’s father.